Cargo Handling and Storage Tenders and Contracts

Cargo handling and storage contracts cover the movement, packing and secure storage of freight, goods or collections. Work can include warehousing, distribution centre operation and inland haulage.

Stotles brings together cargo handling and storage tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Museums and galleries often set up multi-supplier frameworks for art transport and storage, and national logistics arrangements are called off from Crown Commercial Service frameworks.

Hauliers need an operator's licence for goods vehicles, and transport of hazardous goods must follow carriage of dangerous goods rules. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, including goods in transit cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Some are, particularly national logistics and haulage arrangements. Many others are let as standalone tenders by individual councils, agencies or cultural organisations.

Government departments, local councils and heritage organisations are regular buyers, alongside ports and freight operators.

Read logistics and warehousing strategies, museum and gallery exhibition programmes, records storage reviews and expiry dates for existing haulage and storage contracts, which show work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Cargo handling and storage notices carry 63110000 (Cargo handling services) and 63120000 (Storage and warehousing services).